Is this expression 'the liver for breaking alcohol down' natural and grammatically correct? Yes Do from the liver and for breaking alcohol down respectively modify ' Substances '? Yes
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Clive'the liver for breaking alcohol down' natural and grammatically correct? YesIf this one is correct, doesn't it mean that 'for breaking alcohol down' modify 'the liver'?
Hans51Is this expression 'the liver for breaking alcohol down' natural and grammatically correct?In case you are unclear, that is not a collocated expression. The two collocations are:
Mister Micawber[substances] for breaking alcohol downThank you so much as usual!
Hans51am confused with the brackets, so do you mean that "for breaking alcohol down" also modifies "substances"?Yes.
Hans51And do you agree that if the prepositional phrase "for breaking alcohol down" modifies 'the liver',No; 'substances'. Clive said the same.
Hans51If I thought that if the prepositional phrase modifies 'the liver', it would mean there is another liver for doing another thing?Yes, I suppose so.
Hans51 Is that why it does not make sense? Or what would you feel and think if it "for breaking alcoho
Mister MicawberMany learners get so involved in grammatical structure that they forget the real world functions identically in any language.Thank you so much as usual and for some reason, I have trouble understanding this sentence because of 'functions' so 'the real world functions' is an object of the verb 'forget' or 'functions'
Hans51 'functions' is a verb of the subject 'the real world'?Yes.